Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 22: February 15, 1887 In this connection it may be well to say a few words concern ing ventilation. Most people require eight hours' sleep - that is, one-third of their lives is spent in their bed-chambers and yet we have known persons who seemed to think that any kind of a place, however narrow and contracted it might be, that would hold a bed would do for a bed-chamber. This is a great mistake. There is no one room, probably, in the house which is occupied so steadily and for so long a time as the bed chamber. And though our bodies are locked in slumber, and we are unconscious the greater portion of the time, the system requires pure air as much as if it were wide awake. Bed rooms, therefore, should be commodious and well ventilated. How sickening it is to go into a room where one or two per sons have slept through the night, which has not been ven tilated! Even the ordinary sense of smell, which is not acute enough to detect many poisons which are in the atmosphere, is shocked and disgusted by the emanations that float in the air. N o wonder the people sleeping in such an atmosphere arise exhausted and feeling badly, having no appetite and hav ing a bad taste in their mouths! Such an atmosphere is liter ally loaded with poison, and good health cannot be enjoyed by one who breathes it for any length of time. The requisites of health are: regular habits, daily exercise, personal cleanliness, simple diet, and moderation in eating, drinking and the gratification of other appetites; and children should be taught the value of these habits and the excellent results which will follow their observance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.